Case

2012

On March 29, 2012, Tran Thi Thuy Lieu was convicted of the
murder of her husband, journalist Le Hoang Hung,
after a one-day trial in southern Long An province. Hung died January 30, 2011,
after he was set ablaze while sleeping in his home in Tan An, news reports
said. Reports said Lieu, who had suffered gambling losses, was motivated by her
husband's refusal to sell their home.

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Igor Vinyavsky, editor of the
independent weekly Vzglyad, was freed
from a Kazakhstan prison on March 15, 2012, on the orders of an Almaty court,
according to news reports. The journalist had spent two months in pretrial
detention after being arrested by the KNB, Kazakhstan's
security service, news reports said.